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First part of my version of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
Red’s mother was killed when she was but a babe; no one knew why the wolf had left little Red swaddled in her cot. Perhaps he thought it less cruel to simply kill her like he had her mother. So he left her to starve. no more than a few hours after Red’s grandmother discovered her daughters mutilated body panicking she ran to little Red to find her blood red eye’s wide and wet her sweet pale face stained with the tracks of tears. The poor girl left to starve a few hours ago brightened at the sight of the elderly woman, reaching out with her small plump hands she cried out to be held. The girl’s grandmother cursed herself for she should have known they would target sweet Red and her mother; after all she was the very reason. Cuddling the small child to her chest she stared into the darkness with her blood red eyes and swore that she would teach the girl all the things her mother had taught her and everything she had failed to teach her own daughter, she swore vengeance…
i am illustrating the story as i write it in hopes to give my self some inspiration as i often hit a brick wall while writing.
the first illustration is pretty self explanatory, it is ‘Red’ as a baby. i drew her as i pictured her as i wrote the beginning of the story .
the bunch of eyes are experiments really, and was the first thing i actually drew before i even started writing. the eyes were a sort of inspiration for me, and a favorite to draw. the eye’s portray her character a great deal, from her name to her blood thirsty nature.
i will carry on posting the story as i write it, but bare with me for the minute i have hit a brick wall… i think some drawing is in order.
Understanding Colour.
how the eye see’s colour.
Colour happens in the brain light hits an object depending on the reflective qualities of the object, the photosensitive cells in the eyes detects the light transmitting to the brain.
colour can be found in light, Sunlight is colorless a rainbow is proof that all the colors of the spectrum exist in white light. As shown in the diagram below, light goes from the sun to the apple,and then to the eyes and brain.
the light shines on the apple, which then absorbs all the colour’s except those similar to the colour red, and then reflects the colour to the eye, the eye then sends a message to the brain.
complementary colours.
complementary colours are colours that are opposite each other in the colour wheel, they are colours that clash but complement each other. this can be seen in the diagram below.
if you place a red piece of paper in a room full of green light what colour would the card appear?
the paper would appear black as there is no red light rays in the room.
primary colours.
Red, blue, and yellow. these three colours can’t be created using any other combination of colours. Primary colours are sets of colours that can be combined to make a range of colours.
mixing primary colours.
Yellow+Red= Orange.
Blue+Yellow= Green.
Red+Blue= Purple.
secondary Colours.
Orange, Purple and Green, otherwise known as Secondary colours, these are the combinations of three Primary colours.
Tertiary Colours.
Tertiary Colours involve all three Primary colours Red, Yellow and Blue, Tertiary means ‘three’ for example the combination of Orange and Blue is a Tertiary colour because Orange is made up from Red and Yellow, both being Primary colours. Blue-Green is a Tertiary colour because it has a primary and secondary colour in it.
Warm VS Cool Colours.
Warm colours include Yellow,Orange and red.
Cool colours include Purple, Blue and Green.
The color circle can be divided into warm and cool colors.
Warm colors are vivid and energetic..
Cool colors give an impression of calm..
White, black and gray are considered to be neutral.
additive and subtractive light.
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR.
When we mix colors using paint, Subtractive color mixing means that one begins with white and ends with black; as one adds color, the colour gets darker and darker and eventually turns a black colour.
The CMYK color system is the color system used for printing.
Those colors used in painting—an example of the subtractive color method.
ADDITIVE COLOR.
If working on a computer, the colors seen on the screen are created with light using the additive color method. Additive color mixing starts with black and ends with white; as more color is added, the result is lighter and tends to turn white. when working with a computer it is best to calibrate your screen to the most neutral setting possible.
The RGB colors are light primaries and colors are created with light.
Percentages of red, green, & blue light are used to generate color on a computer screen.
Hue.
Hue is the distillation between colour, usually in comparison to Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. when we talk about colors that are red, yellow, green, and blue, we are talking about hue.
Hue Contrast – strikingly different hues
Hue Constant – different colors, same hue (blue)
saturation is the intensity of a certain Hue.
Artist’s who use Colour.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ellsworth-kelly/
Ellsworth Kelly.
Ellsworth Kelly (American, b.1923) is a painter and sculptor who established his own style amidst the pervasive influence of the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art movements. Born in New York Citty, Kelly admired the works of Naturalist John James Audubon as a child and loved to draw, even though his parents only reluctantly permitted him to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After serving during World War II for two years as a camouflage artist, Kelly was able to study on the GI Bill at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, MA, and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Separated from the American art world while in Europe, Kelly developed his distinctive method of painting, which features canvases painted in a single color, at times in isolation and other times grouped with differently colored canvases. These works echo Kelly’s desire to separate himself from the traditional roles of composition and the artist’s hand. Kelly only returned to the US when he believed that the enthusiasm for Abstract Expressionism had died down enough to allow his work to get some visibility. By the end of the 1950s, he was internationally recognized for his monochromatic canvases, which began to take the shape of non-rectangular forms such as ovals and curves. Kelly also began to create sculptures similar to his paintings, featuring simple two-dimensional forms. In 1970, the artist moved to upstate New York, where he shifted his focus to create large outdoor sculptures concerned more with color than form. Many of his public works are now on display around the world. Kelly now lives and works in Spencertown, NY
“Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue” at the Whitney Museum,
with Red Blue (1963) (left) and Red Green Blue (1964)
Catherine Yass.
http://www.alancristea.com/artist-Catherine-Yass
Born in 1963, Yass lives and works in London. After receiving a BA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1986, she went on to study at Goldsmiths College (1988-90) where she graduated with a Masters degree in Fine Arts.
She is best known for her distinctive photographic and film based work. Typically she manipulates her subject matter by overlaying the negative and the positive from photographs she has taken and then realises the resultant images as lightboxes, prints and films.
She was the recipient of the Glen Dimplex Award, at IMMA Dublin in 1999, and the Sci -Art Award from The Wellcome Trust, London, in 2001. Yass was chosen to represent Britain at the Indian Triennale at the Museum of Modern Art in Delhi in 2001, was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2002 and, in 2005, she took up a British Council Residency in China. Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally, at galleries including the ICA, Whitechapel, Hayward, Serpentine, Tate Gallery, London, and Tate Gallery, Liverpool, and, internationally, amongst other cites in New York, Delhi, China, Moscow, Amsterdam, Israel and Canada. Her work can be found in a number of public collections including the British Council, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, and the Government Art Collection.
| Turner prize 2002 |
Catherine Yass, Descent: HQ5: 1/4s, 4.7°, 0mm, 40mph, 2002
Ilfochrome transparency, lightbox
164 x 129 x 12.5cm
Courtesy the artist and asprey jacques, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/image/0,8543,-10604536733,00.html
Gary Panter.
http://www.garypanter.com/site/index.php?/about/biography/
Gary Panter was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. He studied painting at the East Texas State University and moved to Los Angeles in 1977. In L.A. he worked on multiple fronts, including painting, design, comics, and commercial imagery, establishing a pattern of creating across traditional boundaries, and in multiple media, that endures to this day.
In the late 1970s he exhibited his first major suite of paintings and drew posters and fliers for the likes of The Germs and The Screamers. He also began a long association with the various incarnations of Pee-wee Herman, as well as creating the early adventures of his punk/nuclear/hillbilly alter ego, Jimbo. In 1980 Gary published “The Rozz-Tox Manifesto”, a highly influential document that directed his generation to infiltrate the mainstream with underground ideas and culture.
Gary’s paintings occupy a large portion of a very prolific 1980s, during which he also designed the sets and puppets for Pee-wee’s Playhouse, completed record covers for the likes of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and maintained an active comics output through his own mini-comics and his contributions to Raw magazine and other anthologies.
Returning to comics in the early 1990s, Gary drew seven issues of a Jimbo comic book. He then began delving into light shows, staging elaborate psychedelic performances in his studio space. More recently, he has collaborated with Joshua White, and the duo has mounted lightshows at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and at New York’s Anthology Film Archives.
In 2006-2007, Gary was a featured artist in the touring exhibition, Masters of American Comics. His paintings and drawings have recently been exhibited at Dunn and Brown, Dallas and Clementine Gallery, New York. In 2008, Gary was the subject of a one-man show at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
His books include a comprehensive monograph, Gary Panter (PictureBox), and four graphic novels: Jimbo in Purgatory (Fantagraphics); Jimbo’s Inferno (Fantagraphics); Cola Madnes (Funny Garbage); Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise (Pantheon). Gary has won numerous awards, including three Emmy Awards for his production design on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, as well as the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence.
Gary Panter lives and works in Brooklyn.
Awards Program
MTV, 1993
Laura Siragher.
http://www.laura-siragher.com/
“Hello, my name is Laura Siragher (you pronounce it ser-AH-jer). I like clean bold colours and lines and the freedom digital art gives me to manipulate and play with what I’ve created (in other words, I’m fickle and I like an undo button). My main influences are Japanese superflat, Ernst Haeckel, kittens, vinyl toys and things with big teeth.
When I design for clients, I have a distinctive style but also adapt my practice to the needs of both the client and the audience, so each piece has a personality born of our shared ideas.”
Client: Harley Live/DrownedinSound/SensoriaBrief: Poster for A Hawk and a Hacksaw’s performance at St George’s Church, Sheffield
Analyzing ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
for my “Deconstructing The Grand-master” project i have decided that i am going to “Deconstruct” original fairy tales, strip them down, analyze them and rewriting them, i will then also illustrate these fairy tales, i have started by focusing on “Little Red Riding Hood” one of the most well know fairy tales.
Little Red Riding Hood
By Charles Perrault
“Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman
had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red
Riding Hood.
One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your
grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.”
Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.
As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared
not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going. The poor
child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, “I am going to see my
grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.”
“Does she live far off?” said the wolf
“Oh I say,” answered Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in
the village.”
“Well,” said the wolf, “and I’ll go and see her too. I’ll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who
will be there first.”
The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way,
entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers. It was
not long before the wolf arrived at the old woman’s house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought
you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother.”
The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out, “Pull the bobbin, and
the latch will go up.”
The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman
and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten. He then shut the door and got
into the grandmother’s bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time afterwards and knocked at
the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her
grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, “It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has
brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you.”
The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, “Pull the bobbin, and the latch will
go up.”
Little Red Riding Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.
The wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, “Put the cake and the
little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed with me.”
Little Red Riding Hood took off her clothes and got into bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her
grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
“All the better to hug you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”
“All the better to run with, my child.”
Grandmother, what big ears you have!”
“All the better to hear with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big eyes you have!” “All the better to see with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”
“All the better to eat you up with.”
And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.”
Illustrated by Gustave Dore.
Analysis
“a little country girl” Being in the first sentence this gives the reader the sense of innocence, it leads you to believe that “Little Red Riding Hood” is only a child.
“this good woman, a little red riding hood made for her” After the first sentence stating that “Little Red Riding Hood” is a child to be told only a few sentences later that she is in fact a woman, is very contradictory; it shows how she see’s herself as a young girl, she is sweet and innocent and thinks the best of everyone, even when at times she shouldn’t.
“it suited the girl so extremely well that everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood” It is clear here that although given a “Red Riding Hood” “Red” being a very sensual colour, and the girl being completely the opposite, i believe that this is intentional that “Charles Peralut” knew by giving a seemingly innocent girl a colour usually reserved for whores, he intended to be contradictory.
“she met with a wolf, who had a good mind to eat her up; but he dared not because of some wood cutters working nearby in the forest” The wolf has no conscience he is more concerned for his own safety. The wolf views “Little Red Riding Hood” as a woman while she views herself as a sweet little child.
“the poor child who did not know it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf” She is very naive, seeing herself as a sweet and innocent child is a weakness, it makes her prone to “predators” like the “wolf”
“the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers” she is very absent minded, and too trusting not to be worried about the strange “wolf” that has ran on ahead of her grandmother.
“who’s there?” “your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood replied the wolf counterfeiting her voice: who has brought you a cake and a pot of butter sent by mother” “the good grandmother, who was in bed because she was somewhat ill, cried out.” “pull the bobbin and the latch will go up” The “Grandmother” is very trusting, you should always check before letting someone in your house.
“little red riding hood hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her Grandmother had a cold and was hoarse” The naive girl went against her instinct and better judgement trusting that it was her Grandmother, when she knew the wolf was going to her grandmothers house.
“the wolf said to her hiding himself under the bedclothes put the cake and pot of butter upon the stool and come into bed with me” The “wolf” is being very impressional persuading “Little Red Riding Hood” to get into bed with him.
“then he immediately fell upon her and ate her up in a moment” With the words “fell upon her” this leads me to believe that he has killed her, raped her or maybe even both.
“little red riding hood took of her clothes and got under the bedclothes. she was greatly amazed to see how her Grandmother looked in her nightclothes” “and saying these words this wicked wolf fell upon little red riding hood and ate her all up” this last passage grabs my attention the most, to me it holds the most hidden intent; she is a very impressional girl, by taking her clothes of and climbing into the bed with the “wolf”, the last sentence “and saying these words this wicked wolf fell upon little red riding hood and ate her all up” leads me to think that he has raped the girl stealing her innocence rather than actually eating her, i believe it is meant to be more metaphorical, another clue is when she takes her clothes off to get into bed with the “wolf” i believe that the author was implying that the “wolf” rapes “Little Red Riding Hood” other wise why would he use those words?
Exhibition.
do i think the exhibition went well? Having been finalizing the way in which it was exhibited on Thursday morning it was a very stressful day for every one. my Mum, Nana, and best friend had every intention on coming to see my exhibition but Mother nature it seemed did not agree with us due to a massive blizzard over the moors causing accidents and very slow traffic, a 40 minute drive turned into a 4 hour drive; so they never actually made it.
After slipping three times due to wet weather and slippery new shoes i got a taxi back to Storthes with some fellow course mates and waited fr my mum to come and get me, when she arrived it was past 10 o’clock and we weren’t sure if we were going to be able to get home that night as the motorway had been closed, as they were only allowed to stay on site 30 minutes we decided to chance our not so good luck and drive home, which took us another four hours not getting back until way after 1 am.
personally i did not enjoy my first exhibition after all the work everyone had put in and all the stress of it i was disappointed that no one i invited actually got to see my work; but i must say we did a DAM FINE JOB! our first time organizing a exhibition and we only had a few weeks to do it i was impressed; i never actually thought we were going to pull it off i honestly thought it was going to be a shambles but it turned out to be GREAT!!!
I no doubt would have enjoyed the exhibition more if it had not been for scuffed shoes, missed exhibitions and a four-hour drive.
Did the exhibition go well? You tell me!
Mannequins.
My tutor suggested doing what i had done with the heads with retail mannequins, he said that he was really interested in seeing what would happen when put together.
I created two collages using the idea that my tutor gave me, i was going to involve these collages in the exhibition but as the exhibition got put together i gave up my wall space so that we could fit more people in, so i decided not to include my collages in the exhibition.
Alter Ego Box Building.
Who am i?
Alter Ego Continued.
using a shop bought mask with very little facile features i modeled faces using Mod Roc.
I choose to use make up to emphasize that allot of teenagers slather there faces with make up as a way of covering imperfections and in a sense themselves.
Once the faces had set i applied a coat of liquid latex waited for that to dry then added another. i did this with the intentions that the liquid latex would act as a substitute for skin, this would make it easier for the make up to be applied too the faces.
By using false eyelashes i intended to create the persona of a real person, that i thought could not be made by just painting the eyelashes onto the face; the eyelashes give the face more shape and make it appear more 3D.
Alter Ego “The Other i”
A few pages out of one of my Alter Ego sketchbooks.
I became very interested in the emotions portrayed in a persons eyes. if you cover the lower half of the baby’s face you can still see the shock in the baby’s eyes.
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